Viant Corp. (Nasdaq: VIAN) fell 1/8 to 4 1/8 Thursday after the company became the latest Internet consultant to announce layoffs and a restructuring to combat an industry slump. The Boston, Massachusetts-based consulting company said it will lay off 125 employees , taking...

Internet retailers accounted for the bulk of the cuts, with 1,812 layoffs . Dot-com service companies followed, with 1,287 cuts; entertainment sites were next with 948; portals were responsible for 786 lost jobs; and health and fitness sites shed 671 jobs.

While the layoffs themselves might not be a cause for anxiety among many investors, what should have investors a bit worried is the recent stock meltdown of many business-to-consumer companies. The most notable of this category is eToys, which closed Friday at an...

"Cutting edge technology does not give a company the right to cut jobs without proper notice to employees," Blumenthal said. "These layoffs clearly violate the spirit and letter of the law designed to protect workers and our economy from layoffs without any...

Another cost-cutting mistake has to do with layoffs . According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 146,461 Internet workers have been laid off since December 1999. While many of those job cuts were unavoidable because entire...

Although layoffs at online firms hit a 15-month low in September, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC), which tracks industry-wide job cuts, estimates that dot-coms have handed out more than 90,000 pink slips this year. The figure for the nine-month period is...

... CEO Satya Nadella may launch a massive round of layoffs , possibly as early as this week. Some details are still being worked out, unidentified sources with knowledge of the company's plans told Bloomberg. Layoffs have been widely expected since Microsoft purchased...

... companies would be likely to admit it, and even fewer would be willing to talk about it publicly, but layoffs can have business benefits that go well beyond short-term cost savings. When done right, they can even help improve morale by reassuring...

... high-tech workers lost their jobs in 2002 than in 2001 as layoffs declined 33 percent, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas (CGC). Strikingly, CGC reported there were only 4,496 layoffs by e-commerce companies in 2002, compared with more than 56,000...

Last week, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, Inc. reported that layoffs among dot-com companies for the month of October had reached a record 5,677 -- an 18 percent increase from September -- bringing the tally of...

Yahoo layoffs will be spread across the company with concentrations in the product group, according to anonymous sources cited in multiple reports. There is street speculation that private equity firms are exploring the possibility of buying the US$20 billion company. There have...

Redfin , Zillow and Market Leader (former HouseValues.com) have all gone public about how the slowdown has affected them; two of them went through painful layoffs in recent weeks. All of them are now refocusing their energies on new services that their top...

... the sixth month in a row, dot-com layoffs have reached record numbers, according to a report released Monday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). The Chicago, Illinois-based firm said that during the month of November, 8,789 dot-com employees lost their...

Part 2 will examine the laws governing the disclosure of layoffs and the state of the outsourcing market. As the ongoing global economic crisis continues to impact the technology sector, many employees who once thought their jobs were secure are being given pink...

"The survivors may be in a position to ride out the rest of the downturn," Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "But there are reasons to believe we could be in for more layoffs . This may be something of the calm before...